a scrim of discretion
"A Scrim of Discretion," May 13, 2022 (#133)
title from "The Bacchanal of 1920s Hollywood, via Frederica Sagor Maas," You Must Remember This #133, "The Seduced" episode 2
The Art of Philosophy by Peter Sloterdijk (2007)
The Art of Power by Thich Nhat Hanh (2007)
last line from Authority by Jeff VanDerMeer (2014)
A Scrim of Discretion
Just as the history of science usually presumes that
the sunshine embraces the flower, and the energy of the
laboratory where mental photographs provide precise, tangible
excitement, any joy, and of course no happiness,
specific schools should only ever be conducted in brackets of
the wholesome, the good, the true, and the beautiful within
a consultancy contract at a royal court. In late antiquity,
humans are made of nonhuman elements. We appeared on the
disinterested contemplation “on the other side."
Awakening is your task. By skillful means, you can
be pushed aside as troublesome delusions. The metaphysician
can help you stop your habitual thinking and go back to
ask was why they hadn’t been kept separate from one another.
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